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Guidance: Report illegal animal medicines

How to report suspected illegal activity and how we will deal with these reports.

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Guidance: Legal requirements for placing a veterinary medicine on the market

Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, medicinal words and phrases, how to obtain advice, report non-compliance.

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Guidance: Veterinary medicines legislation

The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.

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Guidance: Enforcement policy for animal medicines

This enforcement policy sets out the general principles and approach taken by the VMD.

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Guidance: Advertise veterinary medicines legally

How veterinary medicines can be advertised.

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Guidance: Explainer: transitional provisions in new Regulations

Explainer for businesses and persons regulated by the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013, as amended, on the transitional provisions included in the amending legislation: the Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024.

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Guidance: Marketing Authorisation Holders, Named Distributors and Local Representatives of veterinary medicines

Who in the pharmaceutical industry can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.

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Guidance: How to register a Veterinary Homeopathic Remedy (VHR)

Apply to register, renew, or vary a Veterinary Homeopathic Remedy.

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Guidance: Apply to change a veterinary Marketing Authorisation or Homeopathic Remedy

Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply to vary a veterinary Marketing Authorisation (MA) or Homeopathic Remedy.

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Guidance: Submission of an application for a veterinary marketing authorisation

How to submit an application, data package and responses for proposed or existing marketing authorisations.

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Guidance: Apply for a Marketing Authorisation in the UK for a veterinary medicine or expiry

Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply for an authorisation to place a veterinary medicine on the UK market or part of, or to expire one.

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Form: Annual fees for marketing authorisation holders for veterinary medicines

How to complete and submit the turnover declaration form as the holder of a UK marketing authorisation.

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Guidance: Application fees for veterinary medicines

Fees charged for the specific activities carried out by the VMD.

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Guidance: Fees applied to veterinary medicine authorisation applications in Northern Ireland

Definitive fees charged for applications under Schedule 7 of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013.

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Guidance: Fees applied to veterinary medicine authorisation applications in GB

Effective from 17 May 2024 Definitive fees charged for applications under Schedule 7 of Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013 (as amended) as they apply to GB.

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Guidance: VMD Information Hub

This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.

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Guidance: Fee changes in the Veterinary Medicines Regulations

The VMR sets out the statutory fees associated with various regulatory services provided by the VMD. The statutory fees and fee structure are implemented from 17 May 2024.

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Guidance: Fee changes in the Veterinary Medicines Regulations

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The VMR sets out the statutory fees associated with various regulatory services provided by the VMD. The statutory fees and fee structure are implemented from 17 May 2024.

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Guidance: VMD Information Hub

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This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.

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Recruitment for Audit and Assessment Officers

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Fixed term appointment vacancies in the Residues Team.

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Official Statistics: VMD Published Standards 2024 to 2025: Monitoring performance

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Reporting against VMD published standards up to 31 March 2025.

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Guidance: Published standards for regulatory work 2024/2025

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These published standards relate to a number of KPIs in the VMD Deliverables and KPI document.

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Official Statistics: VMD Published Standards 2024 to 2025: Monitoring performance

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Reporting against VMD published standards up to 31 March 2025.

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Guidance: Published standards for regulatory work 2024/2025

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These published standards relate to a number of KPIs in the VMD Deliverables and KPI document.

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Notice: MAVIS Hub Edition 130

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Marketing Authorisations Information Service (MAVIS) Hub edition 130

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New Veterinary Medicines Regulations coming into force on 17 May 2024

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New legislation in Great Britain will make changes to the requirements set out in the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013.

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Joint supplement for dogs seized

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Unauthorised product from the USA seized at a Portadown courier company.

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Recruitment for two Senior Efficacy Assessors

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Senior Efficacy Assessor vacancies, working in the regulation of veterinary medicines.

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Dog worming granules seized

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Panacur C granules seized at East Midlands Airport.

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Five vasodilator injectable medicines for dogs and horses seized

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AMP 5 injection for horses and dogs seized at a Belfast courier company.

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Worming medicines for cats and dogs seized

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Twenty packets of worming tablets seized at Border Force in Belfast.

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Change to procedure for joint label assessment for new Marketing Authorisation applications

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From 13 May 2024 we are introducing a change to the procedure for new Marketing Authorisation (MA) applications, where a joint assessment of labels is requested.

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Warning relating to veterinary use of human eye gels

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Batch recall alert for human eye gels that may be prescribed by vets and used under the cascade.

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Recruitment for Pharmacovigilance Administrative Officer

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Pharmacovigilance administrator vacancy working Pharmacovigilance section of the Authorisation Division.

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Guidance: VMD Information Hub

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This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.

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Official Statistics: Residues of veterinary medicines in food: 2023

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Residues of veterinary medicines in food 2023 surveillance results, a rolling summary.

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Guidance available for product information templates for veterinary medicines

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Explainer on product information templates to be used by applicants and Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) of veterinary medicines.

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Guidance: Product Literature Standard (PLS) for veterinary medicines

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Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production of mock-ups for assessment.

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Guidance: Summary of Product Characteristics and product literature for veterinary medicines

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Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production and submission of the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPCs) and product literature mock-ups.

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Official Statistics: Residues of veterinary medicines in food: 2024

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Residues of veterinary medicines in food 2024 surveillance results, a rolling summary.

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Guidance: Top Ten Imported Veterinary Medicines – Quarterly Report 1 Jan to 31 Mar 2024

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Details of certificates issued under the Special Import System for the top ten veterinary medicines that were imported 1 Jan - 31 Mar 2024.

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Bronchospasmolytic injectable medicines for horses seized

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MV Chinfield antifatigue bronchospasmolytic for thoroughbreds seized at a Belfast courier company.

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Guidance: VMD Information Hub

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This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.

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VICH consultation on new guidelines relating to technical requirements

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VICH consultation until 15 August 2024 on guidelines relating to the technical requirements for demonstrating pharmaceutical development of veterinary medicinal products.

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Guidance: Urgent safety updates for veterinary medicines

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Urgent safety updates arising from pharmacovigilance data, including reported adverse events, for veterinary medicines authorised in the UK.

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